Amstrad CPC development library ‘CPCtelera’ version 1.4.2 has been released

CPCtelera is a C library for cross development for the Amstrad CPC 464, which also includes a set of tools including a tracker, image editor, Visual Studio code support and more. The version 1.4.2 has been released just in time to be used in the Amstrad CPC Game Development competition CPCRetroDev’17.

Features included in this release:

Updated SDCC compiler from version 3.5.5 to newest version 3.6.8 (revision 9946). New version is much more efficient, generates better code and solves some bugs from previous one.

Added automatic Arkos Traker 1 AKS music conversion. It is done through the makefile macro AKS2C, which is easily added in config file cfg/music_conversion.mk

Added project support for Visual Studio Code IDE. All CPCtelera projects can now be opened and compiled in VS Code. Moreover, intellisense and keyboard shortcuts for automaticly running games are easily added.

Documented VS Code integration, with plenty of information for users on how to set up projects.

Documented Automatic Conversion Tools for Music, Graphics and Tilemaps. This will greatly help users on fastly and comfortably integrating asset production in their projects without having to bother to convert them when they change.

Added support for drawing tiles using gray code order and making use of the stack. Really fast method for advanced users.

Added troubleshooting section to the documentation in order to help users with common issues.

Fixed issue in iDSK: it was overwritting files with same name but different extension.